Mariam al-Masri<p>Hello, I'm new to Mastadon and looking to meet people interested in medieval Silk Road history, especially of women and non-western historical fiction.</p><p>To sort of give you an idea of the weird stuff I'm into, here's a post I did about stories written in the Medieval Silk Road that feature women and are available in English: </p><p><a href="https://mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/stories-about-women-from-the-medieval-silk-road-and-available-in-english/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mariamalmasriauthor.wordpress.</span><span class="invisible">com/2025/02/05/stories-about-women-from-the-medieval-silk-road-and-available-in-english/</span></a></p><p>On this, anyone else into weird and obscure histories?</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/historicalFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historicalFiction</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/silkroad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silkroad</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/womenshistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistory</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a></p>